Civilisation Alley. Globalism before European Imperialism, considered as a broad band of advanced cultures from North-West Europe to South India, plus the sophisticated and diverse cultures of East Asia.

Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story. How history might have been very different had Mary had a son and heir to carry on a Tudor Catholic line. If there was a destiny that shaped Great Britain’s rise, then it wasn’t a destiny that cared anything for Christianity in either its Protestant or Roman Catholic versions.

England’s Christian Revolution. The rival British Christianities of the 17th Century, and their relationship to the British Wars (“English Civil War”).

Wordsworth on Guerilla Warfare. Mostly known nowadays for his poetry, Wordsworth showed a lot of political insight, though opting for a version of conservatism that was almost extinct even before Thatcher destroyed Old Toryism. But this former radical showed a very early understanding of a new type of warfare that had begun in Spain.

Economical With The Irish. How a noted British magazine like The Economist can feel comfortable about the vast number of avoidable Irish deaths in the mid-19th century Potato Famine.

How Tibet Emerged Within China. The complex history, which involved Tang Chinese, Mongols and Manchu, but always within the context of the Chinese state and the power-struggles of those who wished to rule it.

Slavery in the British Empire. Slavery of a very modern and commercial sort was closely associated with the rise of Britain as a world power, and the rise of the USA as a British offshoot